unexpected token `build_old_libs,'

[Sascha Manns]

Hello list,

i'm using that configure.ac: https://github.com/saigkill/PublicanCreato
rs/blob/master/configure.ac

The autogen.sh works to the end, but configure currently breaks with:

checking for library containing strerror... none required
./configure: line 6296: syntax error near unexpected token
`build_old_libs,'
./configure: line 6296: `    _LT_DECL(build_old_libs, enable_static,
0,'

Does anyone knows, what this means, and how to fix it?

Greetings
Sascha

[Gavin Smith]

Post by Sascha Manns
Hello list,
i'm using that configure.ac: https://github.com/saigkill/PublicanCreato
rs/blob/master/configure.ac
checking for library containing strerror... none required
./configure: line 6296: syntax error near unexpected token
`build_old_libs,'
./configure: line 6296: ` _LT_DECL(build_old_libs, enable_static,
0,'
Does anyone knows, what this means, and how to fix it?

I would guess that the macros for libtool are not properly imported by
autogen.sh so the autoconf program has not expanded _LT_DECL when it
created the configure script.

It might be easier to see the cause of it if you posted the lines
around line 6296 in the configure script.

I would expect that the line

autoreconf --verbose --force --install || exit 1

in autogen.sh should get the definitions of all the macros that are needed.

I notice in configure.ac there is no use of libtool macros like
LT_INIT. One thing to do would be to find out where the _LT_DECL has
come from (expansion of another macro?).